Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton and Tom Berenger make for a star-studded cast in Hatfields & McCoys, set after the American Civil War

Hatfields & McCoys - C5, 9pm

With the likes of Brad Pitt popping up in commercial breaks, it’s probably time we stopped being mildly surprised at movie stars doing TV.

Even so, Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton and Tom Berenger make for a star-studded cast in this Emmy award-winning mini-series set after the American Civil War.

But for British viewers one of the most unexpected names in the cast is our own Sarah Parish – of Cutting It, Mistresses and currently Monroe – who plays Kevin Costner’s wife Levicy Hatfield.

Time was when that would have made her the envy of every woman watching but as the grizzly, bearded, pipe-smoking patriarch “Devil Anse” Hatfield, I have to say Kevin’s not going to win any beauty contests for this particular role.

And as for Tom Berenger, the only female he has eyes for (allegedly) is his hound.

The true story of the Hatfield and McCoy families is well known in America but not so much here in the UK.

After the civil war ended, the families of two Confederate soldiers fell out in a dispute over land that nearly led to another civil war.

Here, the mountains of Romania stand in for Kentucky and West Virginia and although this feature-length first instalment gets off to a less-than-rollicking start, stick with it.

When the families first go to court over the ownership of a hog, you’ll also spot two more very familiar faces – Joe Absolom and Michael Greco.

The two former EastEnders play small but pivotal roles in this tale from the wild south west.

The Town That Caught Tourette's - C4, 9pm

Last October in the small town of Le Roy, New York, a handful of teenage girls from the same high school suddenly developed symptoms that looked like Tourette’s syndrome: facial twitching and violent limb gestures along with uncontrollable verbal outbursts.

Within a few months, this mysterious epidemic had spread to 18 students and their bewildered families were left wondering whether the cause was physical – a chemical spill being mentioned as one possible cause – or whether it was a diagnosis of mass hysteria.

This one-off documentary hears first-hand from girls who have recovered, as well as those who are still suffering.

They tell how they have dealt not only with the symptoms, but also with the global media frenzy that descended on their small American town.

Hebburn - BBC2, 10pm

Even if it didn’t star the very blonde and very Welsh Kimberley Nixon, comparisons with Gavin & Stacey are inevitable for Jason Cook’s new sitcom.

Even the bawdy character of Denise (Victoria Elliott) who we tonight find struggling to put on her tights in public seems like an attempt to recreate Nessa in the north east.

But the characters are likeable enough to hope they’ll be able to take on lives of their own and stop merely reminding us of other sitcom families.

This week Jack is celebrating becoming a soon-to-be-published author but his main worry is how to appease his mother for not inviting her to his spur-of-the-moment drunken wedding in Vegas.

His dad has got some advice on how to please her – none of it worth a bean, as it turns out.

Vic Reeves and Gina McKee are utterly believable as Jack’s parents, although it’s his granny Dot who is having the most fun tonight – burning some bridges at the old people’s home.